[spaceprison]

I had a similar idea the other day after fighting with inkscape tracing! The problem with auto tracing is lack of content awareness so it's just shapes and colors leading to strange objects that require lots of tinkering.

I'm going to try it: Use segment anything to get object masks, Trace each object separately and combine from there!

[larodi]

It may be much slower, though segment-anything works quite okay from my tests. But still - great work, cant wait to use it in my next design. :D

[westurner]

> Comparing to Potrace which only accept binarized inputs (Black & White pixmap), VTracer has an image processing pipeline which can handle colored high resolution scans. tl;dr: Potrace uses a O(n^2) fitting algorithm, whereas vtracer is entirely O(n).

What is the Big-O of the algorithm with Segment Anything or other segmentation approaches?

Potrace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrace

The Ctrl-L to Simplify Inkscape feature attempts to describe the same path with fewer points/bezier curves.

Could this approach also help with 3d digitization?

[westurner]

TIL about https://github.com/fogleman/primitive from "Comparison of raster-to-vector conversion software" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster-to-vector... which does already list vtracer (2020)

visioncortex/vtracer: https://github.com/visioncortex/vtracer

Vector graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_graphics

Rotoscoping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

Sprite (computer graphics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)

E.g. pygame-web can do SVG sprites; so that you don't have to do pixel art and sprite scaling just works.

2.5D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2.5D

3D scanning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_scanning

"Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly" (2023) ... No AutoLOD Level of Depth https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160089

Wavetale is a 3D game with extensive and visually impressive vector graphics.

[ttul]

This would make for a nice ComfyUI custom node.